The Exchange Coffee Podcasting Network Covoya Specialty Coffee

Join Mark and Todd as they muscle through the complexities of the futures market and hedging for green coffee buyers. Think you're not yet buying enough green coffee to consider hedging as an option? Stay tuned until the end, when Todd introduces a new opportunity for Covoya customers for whom, traditionally, hedging may not have been an option.

Coffee roasting from hobby to business? How does that even happen? Mark and Todd talk about some of the coffee roasters they've watch go from passion project to profits. And welcome home, Mark Inman!

Green coffee storage, a few things to keep in mind if you're new to coffee roasting, thinking about coffee roasting, or well on your way and expecting to grow.

I think the biggest reason that Centrals didn’t return to Europe at pre-war volumes is that several years before the war, the coffee industry in San Francisco got fed up with the fact that they couldn’t buy more Central American coffees even though they were interested in quality and willing to pay for it. They understood that the difference between them and the industry in Europe were the relationships, so they started sending delegations to Central America to spend time, not like tourists and not in the big cities where the large roasters like Arbuckle’s had buying hubs, but further down the supply chain.

Because coffee is a collaborative voyage, Rob Stephen, Managing Director of Covoya U.S. chats with his counterpart and colleague, Phil Schluter, Managing Director of Covoya U.K. Rob and Phil just scratch the surface of his long experience in coffee, including the roots of his family coffee business in East Africa.

The coffee industry has had its share coffee spokespeople over the years, both fictional and nonfictional; but for longevity and pure iconic-ness, none of them can really compare to Juan Valdez, the advertising character who has been representing National Federation of Colombian Coffee Growers for over 60 years.